In New York City, protesters staged a “die-in” at an Israel bank. The article is slanted towards Israel…saying that the protesters were siding with terrorists…so what else is new?
…people who kill innocent people cannot claim innocence nor can they claim to be the victim here.
Global News has photos up on the utter destruction of Gaza. I can’t even imagine what they must feel like. Well, I take that back–I do know how it feels to lose your home, but not by bombing.
My heart goes out to the Palestinian woman crying over losing her home.
The 7th photo shows an ambulance driver’s charred body from being hit by an Israeli rocket. I’d like to see Netanyahu explain this away–he’ll say that the ambulance driver was a member of Hamas, I’m sure…./snarky to the extreme
Warning for the next photo–children who were bombed by Israel. It is horrible. I’m sure they were members of Hamas, as well/snark with disgust
Before, this, they were starving them. Interfering with their ability to earn a living or blocking paychecks. Now I learn that they were also restricting their water! Water!
Do unto others as you would have done to you.
Blood on your hands, Israel. Blood on your hands.
…I know that nothing stays the same, and yet…
I went to Fort Wayne Sunday. I had the thought of giving some food to the food pantry that our building had. It was there to help with the gaps between what the gov’t thinks people need in order to eat and what they actually had at the end of the month.
So…I bought about $80 worth of food and called the manager to see if she was available to get in the building and chat awhile. She didn’t pick up her cell, and I found out why when I arrived at the building–
I had tried the disabled gal that used to run the food pantry. She would have had the key to get in. I couldn’t for the life of me remember her apartment number, so I guessed. A man answered, so yeah, no luck. He didn’t even know the name so either he was new, or the gal has moved to another place. She had been there quite a few years, so I was surprised that she wasn’t there.
I tried a few more apartments, but no one was home. On a final try, I got one of the residents. Ironically, he was the same one that gave me such grief over there by setting off the fire alarms all the time. Heh.
He let me in and then said they didn’t have the food pantry anymore. I was shocked.
He said that everything had changed and that the manager was no longer there. There had been a big shake up, I guess. No wonder she didn’t reply to my call.
So…I ended up just putting the food on a table in the main lobby for people to pick up.
It was just surreal. There used to be folks outside chatting on the benches. No one. No one inside where a couch and tables are located.
It just felt like the world got a little colder. Makes me sad. Really sad leaving the building. What once was a small community, where we looked out for one another, has become a place to exist.
Once our former manager left, it just seemed to take the warmth and light out of the place. The new maintenance guy did not like the “free” table we had in our rec room…he was somewhat anal and didn’t like the clutter of it…but that table was a life saver for us with little money to buy things. If someone didn’t want something, but another resident could use it, that just saved it from ending up in the landfill, didn’t it? But the maintenance guy insisted there were fights over the stuff…and I can say that I never witnessed it nor heard about any such fights. He just didn’t like it, is my guess….and if there were any fights, he probably blew them out of proportion.
Anyway, what should have been a happy day of giving back was one of sadness.
DN! has a good report up this morning on *why* Hamas is not backing down. Palestinians don’t necessarily support Hamas, but they are left without any other means to break the blockade of Israel the bully. It impacts their ability to get supplies, water, wages, etc. It affects every single thing in their lives.
As President Kennedy said–when you make peaceful protest impossible, then violent protest is inevitable….
It is outrageous that General Motors and two sports arenas have not paid their bills…and yet, their water has not been turned off.
It is outrageous that children are being taken away from their parents when their water is shut off.
As a response to this–what about drilling for wells? There are probably laws against that, but I say go for it. It will be hard, but at least one has access to water.
They are deliberately bombing hospitals. Stunning example of callous indifference.
And they bombed peaceful civilians that have nothing to do with Hamas at prayer time in the evening–I don’t think this was by accident. A religious prejudice, it would seem.
I was watching NBC news last night, and the reporter, that was taken out of Gaza, but is now returned, showed EMTs losing it–they are used to see blood and bodies, but even they cannot stand what it happening. There was utter chaos in the hospital with injured people being turned away because they have no room for any more.
This has to stop. Has to stop. Now.
…they also want to profit off of the misery they caused by the housing collapse…to rent out single family homes, at astronomical prices, no doubt.
Does anybody else smell a rat??
Did these scumbags create the crisis of credit default swaps so that people would lose their homes, and then the Wall Street banksters could snap up properties at bargain basement prices…?
It certainly looks that way to me.
Stats here.
DN! has the attacks on Gaza. I wanted to link to it because it shows that not all Israelis are supportive of the bullying of the Palestinians. Also–I wanted to be clear that Israel does have a right to defend itself–which it was doing with intercepting the rocket fire. They don’t have a right to kill innocent people, despite what Netanyahu states.
Definition of a Bully:
Israel is pummeling the Palestinians…for what? It’s like one kid throwing pebbles at another and the other pulling out a gun and shooting.
The death toll in Gaza jumped overnight, doubling to 80 dead and more than 500 injured, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The latest fatality was 5-year-old Abdullah Abu Gazal, who was killed in a midmorning Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahia.
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80 people dead, including children. People watching the soccer games, minding their own business, struck dead. And once again, members of the media are targeted. Not all Palestinians are in Hamas, yet Israel is shooting at anyone and anything.
And how many Israelis have been hurt? No serious injuries reported. None dead. Repeat that–NONE dead. There is absolutely no justification for the fierceness of the Israeli attacks.
Netanyahu said Wednesday Hamas was to blame, because it was “hiding behind civilians.”
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Stunning.
In other words….”it’s not my fault if stupid civilians get in the way of my bombs…”
Let them be. Let them have their small parcel of land. Treat them as you wish to be treated.
Eagle 
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